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count of my editorial capacity : they are simply the opinions of an 

 individual, and their weight and value must be in exact accordance 

 with their justice and truth. I acknowledge I feel very strongly on 

 the subject, and doubtless express myself strongly, but the occasion 

 seems to require it; and I hope I have not exceeded the bounds of 

 fair criticism in expressing my unqualified disapprobation of a work 

 that I believe to be false in its assertions, false in its reasoning, and 

 false in its conclusions. Edward Newman. 



9, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate, 

 May 16th, 1848. 



Occurrence of Thlaspi perfoliatum near Cheltenham. 

 By Charles Prentice, Esq. 



Allow me to correct an error which I rather hastily inserted in the 

 July number of the ' Phytologist,' 1847. Thlaspi perfoliatum, L., is 

 there stated to be no longer found at Naunton Seven Springs, near 

 Stow-on-the-Wold. 1 was too late for it last year, but being earlier 

 this, I gathered several specimens of this very rare and interesting 

 plant. C. Prentice. 



1, Oxford Place, Cheltenham, 

 May 17th, 1848. 



Notice of ' The Flora of Leicestershire, according to the Natural 

 Orders; arranged from the London Catalogue of British 

 Plants. Leicester: printed by John S. Crossly. 1848.' 



The botany of Leicestershire was very imperfectly known before 

 the Rev. Andrew Bloxam's publications on the subject, — originally 

 by partial lists and localities in the ' Magazine of Natural History,' 

 and eventually in the improved form of a general list for a portion of 

 the county, given in Potter's ' History of Charnwood Forest,' about 

 half a dozen years ago ; additions and corrections having since been 

 occasionally made to our knowledge of Leicestershire plants. We are 

 not aware that Mr. Bloxam's general list was published apart from the 

 quarto ' History ;' so that the little work now before us, in 86 duode- 

 cimo pages, may be considered to fill a vacuum in the literature of 

 local botany. 



The ' Flora of Leicestershire ' appears in form of an arranged cata- 

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